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Munich to Vienna -and finding a Red Elephant

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October 16th 2010
I was awake before 9 for a change without an alarm so was at breakfast at 9.30. It was already starting a little with the light rain. Altho Marienplatz was closer for the Ubahn, and likely thru heavier Sat. morning shopper traffic, decided on a slighty longer walk back past my previous Pension to the Ubahn station which I already know, in terms of end of line names etc, just in case times were tig ... read more

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Once the center of power for the large Austro-Hungarian Empire, Austria was reduced to a small republic after its defeat in World War I. Following annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938 and subsequent occupation by the victorious Allies in 1945, Austria'... ... read more